Amen, America. Amen.

How refreshing it is to hear an intelligent rational all inclusive uplifting inspiring speech intended for All Americans and the World tonight . Amen and God Bless Us All- 💙🇺🇸❤️

A poem written by an unknown author (to me anyway)

I learned how to flinch.
Oh god.
Every lie. Flinch.
Every casual cruelty. Flinch.
Every appeal to hate, to division. Flinch.
Every grasp at more power. Flinch.
Tear down health
tear down decency
tear down protections to the earth
when our clock is ticking and the world burns.
Tear down science.
Tear us apart.
Flinch flinch flinch.
Drag us backwards with each all caps Tweet
with each temper tantrum
each demand for mindless loyalty.
Follow him
take off the mask
die for him.
Flinch.
I have been pulling inward for years
holding my breath
desperately numbing my emotions
afraid disgusted ashamed under siege
helpless
flinch
flinch
Vote
Vote
oh please my country vote
and I kept vigil each long election week night
watching results come in
refresh
refresh
refresh
bleary eyed
7 tabs open
afraid
watching the numbers
hold out hold out just a bit more
stretched taut
maybe maybe
please
take a sleeping pill and wake and back to the vigil
again
again
And Wisconsin is blue
and Michigan is blue
and I begin to hope
but I have learned to flinch.
And Georgia is blue
and I begin to believe.
Wait. Wait. Refresh.
And in a pre dawn vigil
Pennsylvania flips blue.
And I know.
And 4 years of compressed pain
comes roaring up
in a torrent of
ugly cry
shaking
sobbing
wailing relief tears
And I don’t flinch from them.

11 thoughts on “Amen, America. Amen.”

  4. Hello,

    Love the poem, I am relieved.
    I want to feel normal again.
    Biden had a great speech and message for all Americans.
    Take care, stay safe! Have a happy day!

  5. I just heard NBC report that over 50% of white women voted for Trump! WTF! What is wrong with people and what are they seeing that I am not? I just can’t wrap my head around any of it. Thank heavens that women of color have more sense and voted against him.

  6. I’ve done quite a lot of ‘flinching’ myself. The world as we have known it? Gone, yet every day we have something to be thankful for. I pray that God will always watch over us, our country, families, friends. I’m thankful for you Karen, you are highly intelligent and one of the kindest people I know.

    xoxo

  7. I am so glad and relieved the election is finally over though the current butt-head in charge still refuses to acknowledge his loss. A couple of days before election day, I was so frazzled and sick of it, I told my husband if Biden didn’t win, I was tearing up my voter registration card and never voting again!

    1. Please don’t tear up that voter registration card, ever. It is one of the few pieces of power we have. And over the next ten years there are going to be some pretty impressive and refreshing younger candidates to vote for, many of them women. Karen sent out a saying last Saturday:” Ladies wear your shoes. There’s broken glass all over the place.” One broken glass ceiling leads to another and another. Karen’s mom

  8. This so sums it all up. I, like so many, have had too many ups and downs w/ that psychotic acting out in the White House. I have been unable to sleep…had stomach aches…wanted to move away from it all…felt contempt even for the family members…all of that which is so eloquently said above. Even now, there’s the Michigan State Senate Shirkey and Speaker of The State House Lee, Chatfield meeting with the disgusting totally reprehensible maniac and I will be nervous. At first, although I liked Biden, I felt it was time for some younger blood in Washington, but he’s just what we need to move fast and with well experienced, trustworthy staff now. And I couldn’t be happier having a woman of color as VP. At long last, one darn female up there before I die. I didn’t think it would happen. We’ve got to be strong until January 20th. P.S. And hasn’t it been great hearing Obama speak again? So intelligent, gracious, and professional.

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